Dr. Robert Emery is a former collegiate gymnast.
He competed for Penn State University and earned the Nissen Award (the "Heisman" of NCAA men's gymnastics) in 1969.
In 1998, Emery funded an ongoing endowment for the Nissen Award, which is now renamed the Nissen-Emery Award.
He is a founding member and past president of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.
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